Changes in the availability and uses of wild yams according to climatic dryness and land-cover in Western Burkina Faso (West Africa): A joint ecological and ethno-botanical approach using GIS and remote-sensing

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1937-1963

  Devineau, Jean Louis ^a   Aurouet, Axel ^b   Douanio, Manaka ^c   Hladik, Annette ^d  

^a IRD Centre d'Orleans   (France)

^b Parc Technologique du Clos du Moulin   (France)

^c UR 136 IRD ^*  (Burkina Faso)

^d Laboratoire d'Ecologie Generale   (France)

Author keywords

Dioscorea; Famine food; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Multi date image; Protected areas; Sudanian savannahs; Uses, practices and knowledge; Weight of Evidence modelling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; YAM;

AFRICA; BURKINA FASO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

DIOSCOREA; DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA VILLOSA;

EID: 46649101855     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9338-z     Document Type: Article

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